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Stafford Arima (born March 14, 1969) [1] is a Canadian-born theatre director. Arima studied at York University in Toronto, where he was the recipient of the Dean's Prize for Excellence in Creative Work. He is a member of the SDC (Stage Directors and Choreographers Society) and CAEA. In April 2017, he became the artistic director of Theatre Calgary. [1]
Arima became the first Asian Canadian to direct a musical on Broadway when Allegiance opened on November 8, 2015 at the Longacre Theatre starring George Takei and Lea Salonga. [2]
He directed the "revisal" of the musical, Carrie , with a book by Lawrence D. Cohen, music by Michael Gore and lyrics by Dean Pitchford, for the MCC Theater. The production opened Off-Broadway in March 2012 and was nominated for a Drama Desk Award and Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Revival of a Musical. [3]
Arima directed the critically acclaimed musical Altar Boyz , which opened Off-Broadway at New World Stages/ Stage IV in March 2005. The musical received the 2005 Best Off-Broadway Musical Outer Critics Circle Award and was nominated for a Drama League Award as Outstanding Musical. [4]
Other work includes the West End premiere of the Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens musical Ragtime , which was recognized in 2004 with eight Olivier Award nominations including Best Director and Best Musical; concert-productions of The Secret Garden and Ragtime, which were presented at Lincoln Center in 2016 and 2013; Bhangin' It (La Jolla Playhouse), The Secret Garden (Toho, Japan); Two Class Acts by A.R. Gurney (The Flea Theater); Bare: A Pop Opera (by Jon Hartmere and Damon Intrabartolo); Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris (Stratford Shakespeare Festival); Roundabout Theatre Company's production of The Tin Pan Alley Rag ; Saturday Night (musical) (York Theatre Company); The Princess and the Black-Eyed Pea (San Diego Rep.); The New World (Bucks County Playhouse); Bowfire (PBS television special/world tour); Leonard Bernstein’s Candide (San Francisco Symphony); Poster Boy (Williamstown Theatre Festival); Ace (Old Globe, CA); Red Velvet (Old Globe, CA); “A Tribute to Stephen Sondheim” (Boston Pops); Paul Scott Goodman's Bright Lights, Big City (Prince Music Theater); Guys and Dolls (Paper Mill Playhouse); Abyssinia (Goodspeed Musicals); Chef’s Theater (The Supper Club, New York City); Rags - In Concert (Nokia Theatre Times Square, New York City); Christopher Hampton ’s Total Eclipse (Toronto); and Children's Letters to God (Off-Broadway); and Billy Elliot ; A Christmas Carol and Mary & Max - A New Musical at Theatre Calgary.
Arima served as associate director for the Broadway productions of A Class Act (2001) [5] and Seussical (2000). [6]
In addition to Arima’s directing work, he is a faculty member of Broadway Dreams and an adjunct professor at UC Davis where he was awarded the 2013 "Granada Artists-in-Residence."
Stephen Flaherty is an American composer of musical theatre and film. He works most often in collaboration with the lyricist/book writer Lynn Ahrens. They are best known for writing the Broadway musicals Ragtime, which was nominated for thirteen Tony Awards, two Grammy Awards, and won the Tony for Best Original Score; Once on This Island, which won the Tony Award for Best Revival of a Musical, the Olivier Award for London's Best Musical, and was nominated for a Grammy Award and eight Tony Awards; and Seussical, which was nominated for the Grammy Award. Flaherty was also nominated for two Academy Awards and two Golden Globe Awards for his songs and song score for the animated film musical Anastasia.
Lynn Ahrens is an American songwriter, and librettist for the musical theatre, television and film. She has collaborated with Stephen Flaherty for many years. She won the Tony Award, Drama Desk Award, and Outer Critics Circle Award for the Broadway musical Ragtime. Together with Flaherty, she has written many musicals, including Lucky Stiff, My Favorite Year, Ragtime, Seussical, A Man of No Importance, Dessa Rose, The Glorious Ones, Rocky, Little Dancer and, recently on Broadway, Anastasia and Once on This Island.
Matthew Warchus is an English theatre director, filmmaker and dramaturg. He has been the Artistic Director of London's The Old Vic since September 2015.
Bartlett B. Sher is an American theatre director. The New York Times has described him as "one of the most original and exciting directors, not only in the American theater but also in the international world of opera". Sher has been nominated for nine Tony Awards, winning a Tony Award for Best Direction of a Musical for the 2008 Broadway revival of South Pacific.
Altar Boyz is a musical comedy with music and lyrics by Gary Adler and Michael Patrick Walker and book by Kevin Del Aguila. Centering on a fictitious Christian boy band from Ohio, the show satirizes, among other things, the phenomenon of boy bands and the popularity of Christian-themed music in contemporary American culture. It began an Off Broadway run on March 1, 2005, and closed on January 10, 2010, after sixteen previews and 2,032 regular performances, making it the 9th longest-running Off-Broadway musical of all time.
Ken Davenport is a two-time Tony Award-winning theatre producer, blogger, and writer. He is best known for his production work on Broadway.
Jack O'Brien is an American director, producer, writer and lyricist. He served as the Artistic Director of the Old Globe Theatre in San Diego, California from 1981 through the end of 2007.
Andy Karl is an American actor and singer, best known for performing in musical theatre.
Michael Patrick Walker is a composer, lyricist, writer, and musician.
Mark Lamos is an American theatre and opera director, producer and actor. Under his direction, Hartford Stage won the 1989 Tony Award for Outstanding Regional Theatre and he has been nominated for two other Tonys. For more than 15 seasons, he has been artistic director of the Westport Country Playhouse. In May 2023, he announced he will leave the post in January 2024.
Barbara Walsh is an American musical theatre actress who has appeared in several prominent Broadway productions. Walsh is known for her Drama Desk Award and Tony Award nominated role as Trina in the original Broadway production of Falsettos, as well as her turn as Joanne in the 2006 Broadway Revival of Stephen Sondheim's musical Company.
Kevyn Morrow is an American actor, singer, and choreographer known for his roles on Broadway.
Douglas Hughes is an American theatre director.
Andrew Keenan-Bolger is an American actor and filmmaker. He is best known for originating the roles of Crutchie in Newsies and Jesse Tuck in Tuck Everlasting on Broadway. His other Broadway credits include Robertson Ay in Mary Poppins, Jojo in Seussical, and Chip in Beauty and the Beast.
Gordon Greenberg is an American stage director, a theater and television writer, and an Artistic Associate at The New Group.
Christopher Ashley is an American stage director. Since 2007, he has been the artistic director of the La Jolla Playhouse.
Robert Petkoff is an American stage actor known for his work in Shakespearean productions and more recently on the New York City musical theater stage. Petkoff has performed on Broadway, the West End, regional theatre, and done work in film and television. Petkoff was featured as "Perchik" in the Tony award-nominated 2004 revival cast of Fiddler on the Roof but is perhaps best known for his role as "Tateh" in the 2009 revival of Ragtime on Broadway. Petkoff has also provided the voices for over two dozen audiobooks, winning awards for his reading of Michael Koryta's So Cold the River. Married to actress Susan Wands, Petkoff has lived in New York City for the last twenty years, and often performs in benefit concerts for theater-district-related charities.
Christopher Gattelli is an American choreographer, performer and theatre director.
Marcia Milgrom Dodge is an American director, choreographer and stage writer. After working in regional theatre, Dodge directed and choreographed her first Broadway production, a revival of Ragtime in 2009. The production received four Helen Hayes Awards in 2010, including one for Best Director, and received 7 Tony Award nominations including one for Dodge for Best Director of a Musical.
Ragtime is a musical with music by Stephen Flaherty, lyrics by Lynn Ahrens, and a book by Terrence McNally. It is based on the 1975 novel of the same name by E.L. Doctorow.
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